Yeah, Meat Beat Manifesto's "At The Center" was part of Thirsty Ear's Blue
Series, and features Taborn on keys, Dave King (of The Bad Plus) on drums,
and Thirsty Ear owner Peter Gordon on Flute. Really good album, well worth
checking out. When I first heard this back in '05, a friend of mine was
talking about how great Taborn was, but I never realized until five minutes
ago that it was King on the drums. Talk about being ignorant about things!
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 32 lines I'd listened to a record with him and Tim Berne after seeing he had a
> I'd listened to a record with him and Tim Berne after seeing he had a
> credit on the Innerzone Orchestra album - the Tim Berne duo (or trio -
> can't remember) wasn't particularly electronic but was very nice, lyrical
> free jazz. Taborn is obviously an extremely gifted player.
> That NYT piece was really good and it also lead me to Junk Magic, which
> exceeded my expectations. Hyper-intelligent is right - really rewarding
> harmonically and the electronics programming was adventerous. I'd like to
> check out more of the Thirsty Ear series - seems like this sort of
> idm/dance/jazz/hip hop fusion stuff got a push with some interesting people
> involved like El-P, Spring Heel Jack, Matthew Shipp etc.
> There's a lot of good jazz related music coming out with electronics, but
> more on an "experimental" tip by way of musique concrete/EAI and not
> rhythmic programming/dance related. Maybe I'm wrong but I can't think of
> anyone doing that right now...
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:43 PM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I always feel ignorant when I discover music that I should have known
>> about for years. Craig Taborn is a jazz pianist who rated a long piece in
>> the New York Times last week (link below) and it turns out he is a longtime
>> synthesizer lover, and he made an album 11 years ago (!) called "Junk
>> Magic" which is nothing if not hyper-intelligent dance music.
>>
>> https://open.spotify.com/album/6YFRoF4ZfN8P93Oj5AAWUS
>>
>> The Times article:
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/magazine/the-ethereal-gen
>> ius-of-craig-taborn.html
>>
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